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04/19/2013 12:53:06 AM · #151
Boston.com's The Big Picture has photos.

#30 has the greatest impact to me - the woman helping, she's rendering aid, despite clearly having at least one shrapnel injury.

Message edited by author 2013-04-19 01:04:19.
04/19/2013 01:15:10 AM · #152
Originally posted by coronamv:

Are there photos of the backpacks or the suspects without the backpacks? I guess what are we not being told? Too many questions. Not enough answers.


Yes to all three. Of course there are. Do you want to see them ? Too bad.

These images were released to solicit more information from witnesses, not to satisfy the curiosity of the rest of us. The FBI is trying to catch killers and build a case, not provide popular entertainment. If they release all the information they had, it would taint the pool of witnesses. They need people who can expand on the tapes, and they need to know that anyone who comes forward is legitimate, and they can do that by checking their story against what is on the tapes which they are not going to be releasing. I'm sure some will see it as some sort of conspiracy or the government hiding something, but that is how they catch the bad guys.

Oh, and Cory ask your Syrian or Iranian friends if they are Arabs. You might be surprised. Not all those Middle Eastern Muslim types are Arabs. Arabs come from Arabia. Most Syrians are Levantine as are Lebanese, Palestinians, and Jordanians. Racially they have more in common with Greeks and Italians than they do with Arabs. Speaking Arabic makes you as much an Arab as Speaking English makes you an Englishman. So while I agree they guys in the tape could be Syrian, they are a far cry from the "dark skinned Arab" that was the suspect yesterday

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04/19/2013 04:33:56 AM · #153
Police have shot and killed one of the suspects, the other is still at large.

Boston bombing suspects

Edit- One policeman killed, one seriously injured in this on-going situation.



Message edited by author 2013-04-19 04:36:41.
04/19/2013 04:58:12 AM · #154
Originally posted by Cory:

I'd peg these two as quite possibly Syrian in fact, but in any case, they appear to be olive skinned, and the features are absolutely consistent with middle eastern descent.

Which part of Syria do you think the guy on the left is from?
04/19/2013 05:44:57 AM · #155
does guessing at the nationality really matter? i wonder if they were bruin fans? or if they were anybody-but-the-bruins fans? does it matter...

at the moment, watertown is trending

if you want to listen in, here's the boston police, fire and EM scanner.

Originally posted by Michael Salvo @michaelsalvo:

Twitter + Boston police scanner is killing cable news. We may be witnessing the moment when the internet officially eclipses TV.


Message edited by author 2013-04-19 05:50:54.
04/19/2013 07:08:12 AM · #156
Crazy stuff here today. The entire MBTA network is shut down, all the universities and all other schools are closed.
04/19/2013 07:12:08 AM · #157
Russian's huh...

i cant wait to hear their motive.

04/19/2013 07:19:15 AM · #158
Originally posted by bohemka:

Crazy stuff here today. The entire MBTA network is shut down, all the universities and all other schools are closed.


My hometown is in a lockdown as they look for the 2nd bombing suspect. I have a lot of family in Waltham and Watertown, including my parents. I have a cousin who lives around the corner from Kenmore Sq in Boston where SWAT team is right now. What a crazy morning, I'll be happy when all this is over and this 2nd bomber is caught, hopefully alive, so we can find out why they did this.

04/19/2013 07:24:25 AM · #159
Originally posted by Skip:

does guessing at the nationality really matter? i wonder if they were bruin fans? or if they were anybody-but-the-bruins fans? does it matter...

at the moment, watertown is trending

if you want to listen in, here's the boston police, fire and EM scanner.

Originally posted by Michael Salvo @michaelsalvo:

Twitter + Boston police scanner is killing cable news. We may be witnessing the moment when the internet officially eclipses TV.


as we found out yesterday, it already has. the media gets their news from internet. as we saw yesterday the media outlets are so desperate to to feed our hunger they resort to internet sleuthing and plastering the face of an innocent all over their front page.

maybe its best we leave the hearsay and rumors to twitter and the internet and hold the real media to report the facts.
04/19/2013 07:28:40 AM · #160
Originally posted by Denise:

Originally posted by bohemka:

Crazy stuff here today. The entire MBTA network is shut down, all the universities and all other schools are closed.


My hometown is in a lockdown as they look for the 2nd bombing suspect. I have a lot of family in Waltham and Watertown, including my parents. I have a cousin who lives around the corner from Kenmore Sq in Boston where SWAT team is right now. What a crazy morning, I'll be happy when all this is over and this 2nd bomber is caught, hopefully alive, so we can find out why they did this.


let me pose this question, i dont know the answer, its only to stir debate.

do we need to know? should we know? should anyone know?

yes those were injured and died for no reason. but is that a bad thing? these two guys, if both are killed will have performed all this to further no cause.

i'd like the remaining perpetrator to be able to tell authorizes if this is some sort of larger plot, but im not so sure we really ought to need know their cause.

04/19/2013 07:37:20 AM · #161
Originally posted by Mike:

Russian's huh...

i cant wait to hear their motive.


Chechens, big difference
04/19/2013 08:27:34 AM · #162
Originally posted by Mike:

Russian's huh...

i cant wait to hear their motive.

Chechnya. You were only 2,000km out in your original guess of 'Syria' - Just as well you didn't put money on it.
04/19/2013 08:46:23 AM · #163
man all hell is breaking loose in Boston
04/19/2013 09:09:44 AM · #164
Originally posted by JH:

Originally posted by Mike:

Russian's huh...

i cant wait to hear their motive.

Chechnya. You were only 2,000km out in your original guess of 'Syria' - Just as well you didn't put money on it.

That was Cory.
04/19/2013 09:11:57 AM · #165
Originally posted by bohemka:

Originally posted by JH:

Originally posted by Mike:

Russian's huh...

i cant wait to hear their motive.

Chechnya. You were only 2,000km out in your original guess of 'Syria' - Just as well you didn't put money on it.

That was Cory.

Oh yeah, well spotted.

Anyway, more specifically, Dagestan (Chechnya) was mentioned... Got this from Wikipedia;

"Dagestan has been a scene of low-level Islamic insurgency, occasional outbreaks of separatism, ethnic tensions and terrorism since the 1990s. According to International Crisis Group, the militant Islamist organization Shariat Jamaat is responsible for much of the violence.[16] Much of the tension is rooted in an internal Islamic conflict between traditional Sufi groups advocating secular government and more recently introduced Salafist teachers preaching the implementation of Sharia law in Dagestan."
04/19/2013 09:35:27 AM · #166
It probably is important where they are from, now that we know.

Its probably a bit naive to think that these guys wouldn't be from a certain area, and most likely a certain religious profile as well, given the type of "street terrorism" that occurred. Its awful but we knew they wouldn't be from Peru, for instance.

Message edited by author 2013-04-19 09:51:19.
04/19/2013 09:41:04 AM · #167
There is a lot of info about this dead suspect #1, Tamerlan Tsarnaev:

Everything We Know About Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dead Bombing Suspect

His YouTube playlist

A few selections from his Amazon wishlist:
- How to Make Driver's Licenses and Other ID on Your Home Computer
- The I.D. Forger: Homemade Birth Certificates & ​Other Documents Explained
- Secrets Of A Back Alley ID Man: Fake Id Construction Techniques Of The Underground
- The Lone Wolf And the Bear: Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule
- Organized Crime: AN INSIDE GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL INDUSTRY


04/19/2013 09:41:35 AM · #168
Originally posted by Cory:

Originally posted by Ann:

Originally posted by Cory:

Originally posted by Ann:

The pictures. Hard to tell, really, but young white guys, I think.

The video.


Ann, I take it that you don't hang out with young folks from the middle east much?

I'd peg these two as quite possibly Syrian in fact, but in any case, they appear to be olive skinned, and the features are absolutely consistent with middle eastern descent.

Still, hard as hell to really know much from grainy surveillance photos.


So I take it you *do* hang out with Syrians a lot? Otherwise, why make a personal comment like that?


Actually yeah. I do - have a lot of middle eastern friends, ranging from Libya to Syria, to Iran and the UAE. And these guys could be cousins or brothers with a few of them.

And that's not to imply that middle easterners are the only shitheads who do this, or anything of that nature, the guys just DO look to be of potential middle eastern descent, and a Syrian I know looks like this kid's older brother, olive complexion, same nose profile, and curly mid-length black hair. So, I promise, not just being a silly ignorant racist. :)


Pffft - Silly ignorant racist.
04/19/2013 09:51:32 AM · #169
Another two bombs have gone off!!!!

31 killed on Monday,

23 Killed today..

It was in Baghdad though, just wondered why that didn't get its own thread?

Terrorism and killing aint real until its on your own doorstep I suppose. Those damn Iraqis are not real people anyway so it's not really news I guess.

It's a bit like 9/11 when all those New Yorkers who had for years popped their `dimes` and `nickels` into those NORAID tins on street corners & started crying and screaming over those nasty nasty cowardly terrorists - although they had been supporting the IRA for years.

Karma can be a bitch sometimes.

But makes great headlines!!
04/19/2013 09:53:07 AM · #170
Huffington Post news has some pretty good updates to this story, including a link (sorry I'm being too lazy to find it myself) to a heartbreaking phone interview with the uncle of the two young men. Weird how the reporter is the one to inform the family that their one nephew is dead and the other on the run.
04/19/2013 09:54:30 AM · #171
Originally posted by citymars:

Huffington Post news has some pretty good updates to this story, including a link (sorry I'm being too lazy to find it myself) to a heartbreaking phone interview with the uncle of the two young men. Weird how the reporter is the one to inform the family that their one nephew is dead and the other on the run.


Yeah, reporters are great aint they!!
04/19/2013 09:56:52 AM · #172
Originally posted by Simms:

Another two bombs have gone off!!!!

31 killed on Monday,

23 Killed today..

It was in Baghdad though, just wondered why that didn't get its own thread?

Start a thread.
04/19/2013 10:03:23 AM · #173
Originally posted by bohemka:

Originally posted by Simms:

Another two bombs have gone off!!!!

31 killed on Monday,

23 Killed today..

It was in Baghdad though, just wondered why that didn't get its own thread?

Start a thread.


Yesterdays news.

Nicely edited to avoid the other comments.
04/19/2013 10:03:34 AM · #174
Originally posted by bohemka:

Originally posted by Simms:

Another two bombs have gone off!!!!

31 killed on Monday,

23 Killed today..

It was in Baghdad though, just wondered why that didn't get its own thread?

Start a thread.


We already played this out
They go off all day in baghdad.
Its not fair, but its a better story in Boston.
04/19/2013 10:23:03 AM · #175
Originally posted by Simms:

Originally posted by bohemka:

Originally posted by Simms:

Another two bombs have gone off!!!!

31 killed on Monday,

23 Killed today..

It was in Baghdad though, just wondered why that didn't get its own thread?

Start a thread.


Yesterdays news.

Nicely edited to avoid the other comments.

There's nothing worth addressing.

Are you upset that people are talking about the Boston bombings in the Boston bombing thread? Is that disproportionate to the horrors that are occurring simultaneously in this world? Does it lack perspective? You should see the other threads... people are talking about camera equipment and taking photos.

Discussion of an event is of no indication whatsoever of anything else. No belief system, no ideological stance, nothing. And yet you are here drawing the conclusion that discussion of this event is an indication of ignorance to other events that you feel we should be talking about.

Could you please provide us with a flow chart of topics that we can talk about, so we can properly begin with the most important?

But of course your entire point has the foundation of a bitterness toward the US and US foreign policy, and for this you trot out an immature argument on a message board and even use the word karma to talk about the actions being discussed.

You've displayed the greatest lack of perspective of all.
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